Improved stay-brace for trunks



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JULES ROCH, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. j

Leiters Patent No. 100,451, dated March 1, 1870.

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.IMPROVED STAY-BRACE FOR TRUNKS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom zt 'may concern Y Be it known that I, JULEs RocH, of` Rochester, countyof Monroe, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful mode of' constructing a Brace for Holding up the YCovers of Trunks, 86o.; and I d0 hereby declare that the following. is a full and exact description of the samtyreference being hadY to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which- Figure 1 represents an end view of a trunk or box, showing the arrangement ofimy improved brace with the cover-up.

Figure 2 represents a sect-ion of' an end view of' a trunk or box with the cover closed, showing posit-ion of my improved brace when the cover is closed.

rl`he nature of my invention consists in a straight pawl, one endot' which is attached to the cover of trunks orother articles of siuiilar construction, while the other end of pawl is made to slide in a notch and on a movable ratched plate, with a level' attached for drawing the paw] and ratched plate out of gear, and attached to the body or stationary part of the trunk, all for the purpose of supporting in any required position the covers of trunks, chest-s, desks, boxes, and all artached to the cover b ofthe trunk or box i. The other end of pawl a is provided on one side, and near the end, with 'the pin l, more fully described hereafter.

d (l represents ai'rame set in one side and near the.

top of trunk or box i, as .shown in drawings, figs. 1 and 2.

One sideof the framecltl basa slot, e, ruiming length-4 wise with the iamed d. made to correspond with the thickness ot' the pin l, so as to allow the pin Z to slide in the slot, e when the cover ofthe truuk or box is raised or lowered.

c represents a movable ratched plate.

h h. are pins fastened to the lower side and near the ends of frame d d. These pins hh pass through both ends or collars of the ratched plate c, and the ratched plate c is held up to engage with the end of pawl a by two spiral springs, k L.

As the cover is raised, the end of pawl ay passes over 'the Iratched plate c, and engages wit-h the teeth of ratched plate c.

f represents a lever attached at its center to the center of ratched plate c, for ythe purpose ot' drawing the end of pawl out of gear with the vratched platev structed and operated in the manner and for the pur- ,pose specified and described.

JULES ROCHc Witnesses z 4 GEO. FRAUENBEBGER, GEO. EICHORM.

The width of the slot e is' 

